Special Birds Need a Special Home!

All of MickaCoo's foster birds are special and in need of special homes. They need to be adopted by people who are compassionate and dependable. People who don't think of pets as disposable. People who understand the profound responsibility one is entrusted with when another's life is in your hands.

And amongst all the special birds we have, there are sometimes the extra special.

Felix & Harper are a beautiful, sweet little pair of mated pigeons that are mild mannered and gentle. They can't live in any of the foster aviaries we currently have because they get stressed and bullied by the bigger, pushier pigeons. They need a nice quiet little slow-life kind of aviary where they can enjoy the sun and wind and have room to be birds.

Felix and Harper were not in good shape when they were surrendered to the Marin Humane Society. Felix, a tiny, sweet, pure white fantail, had been bullied. He was thin, stressed and missing feathers from being picked on. Harper, a pretty white homer (the kind they use as "wedding release doves"), was suffering from a painful ruptured feather cyst and had been for at least a year. When a MickaCoo volunteer rescued them from the shelter as vulnerable and in need of special care, they were single, too stressed to be mated.

But once in foster care, it only took a few days of safety and security for them to feel well enough to fall in love and become a mated couple.

Harper's cyst has been treated and she is now fully recovered. Felix's feathers have grown in and he is much happier. Harper & Felix are very devoted to their nest and (fake) eggs and are willing to make friends with gentle people. But they need a home!

Stanley & Robbie are another very special little couple in need of a special home. Stanley is an adorable little West of England Tumbler hen with pearl eyes and lushly feathered feet. She was knocked out of the sky by a hawk and rescued by a passing Good Samaritan. She's been fostered in MickaCoo since August. Recently, she married a cute little black and white roller pigeon named Robbie. Robbie was taken to the Berkeley animal shelter as a stray and timed out and facing euthanasia when taken into MickaCoo's foster care.

Stanley & Robbie are also a small, mild-mannered couple and, while they got along OK in the foster aviary with all the big, boisterous pigeons, they weren't strong enough to claim the nest box they needed as a mated couple.

Now they are living indoors in a flight cage, happy to be able to have a nest but in need of a bigger home where they can fly around and have fun without being dominated by big birds.

Harper & Felix and Stanley & Robbie would make a wonderful little flock for a very lucky pigeon adopter. They would get along beautifully and it would be fun and easy to make this little foursome very happy.

These four little birds don't need a huge aviary. They would be happy in a nicely configured garden nook or a corner aviary.

They would love a custom-built home like this.

Or they would be thrilled to see a MickaCoo adopter set up one of the donated 8' x 7' x 4' flight cages that we have available for low-cost purchase.

It's easy to create a beautiful, safe outdoor aviary and MickaCoo will help guide you along the way. (How to Create an Aviary for Rescued Pigeons)

Please- think about enhancing your home and your life with a beautiful aviary and giving sweet little birds like Harper & Felix and Stanley & Robbie the greatest gift- a home. (Online Adoption Application)

Contact me if you have questions. We're full up with a waiting list. We've got more than 115 pigeons and doves including blind Lucky and her mate Biscuit, special fellows Lola & Luigi, doves Mario & Bergamot and so many more. They all need great homes and we need adopters in order to be able to rescue the birds that need our help. Every day we are contacted about birds in need.